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Twitter: To Tweet or Not to Tweet...

This is a short presentation I did for my class IST 561 Internet and Information Access @SUNY Albany. I was talking to a room of graduate students (Information Science). Not one of which uses Twitter. My goal was to introduce the utility of Twitter in Academia and Librarianship. Thanks to Max Wilson and Joe Murphy for being my exemplar examples.

3.
TERMINOLOGY
 Following: you follow people you are
interested in
 Tweet: an individual message
 @username: start a message with this - link
to the person you want to tweet to
 DM, or direct message: Private tweets no one
else can read but you
 RT, or retweet: share cool ideas, shout-out to
people you respect
 Trending Topics: Most mentioned terms on
Twitter at that moment – break news ahead of
mainstream media

8.
Dr. MAX WILSON, Prof, Swansea Univ. UK
TWITTER IN ACADEMIA
o Why Max Tweets
o “To engage with my international research community”
 “To bounce ideas, or things that are too small to blog about
yet”
 “To share new publications of mine, as they get accepted”
 “To keep up with buzzes in my research areas
Max’s Advice for New Tweeter’s
 Start seeing who the major peeps in your research area are
tweeting, see what they are tweeting about
 Start responding to them with intelligent
comments/questions
 Start tweeting intelligent, research oriented things yourself
and hopefully have them comment on you.

9.
THE INNOVATIVE LIBRARIAN I MET
AT ALA THIS SUMMER, WHO GOT ME
INTERESTED IN TWITTER
Joe Murphy, Science Librarian

10.
So, to Tweet or Not to
Tweet?
Are there any other questions?
The End